snow-broth

It was a village of no importance, save for the road that close by forded the Guadalete, which was a pale icy mountain stream, snow-broth, as Shakespeare said.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

The valleys smiled, high places lifted up their heads, the hasty Gave de Pau swirled on its shining way, a laughing sash of snow-broth, and all the countryside glowed with the cheerful aspect of a well-treated slave.

Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

Physically, she hadn't responded to him in the least; but the long silences of Roscarna and particularly those of the following winter, when Slieveannilaun loomed above the woods like an immense and snowy ghost, and the lake was frozen until the cold spell broke and snow-broth swirled desolately under the Palladian bridge, gave her time for reflection in which her fancy began to dwell on the problems of ideal love.

The Tragic Bride Francis Brett Young 1919

And perhaps the seeming “snow-broth blood” of Angelo puts him upon affecting a more frisky circulation than he really has.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

“This is none of your snow-broth, Peggy,” said the mother, “it's warming, it's as good as the Widow's bitter-bags.”

Margaret 1851

And perhaps the seeming "snow-broth blood" of Angelo puts him upon affecting a more frisky circulation than he really has.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

In his absence Angelo, a man "whose blood is very snow-broth", is to take charge.

Evening Standard - Home 2010

When the hill-streams run full after the melting of the snows, that's snow-broth. "

The Judge Rebecca West 1937